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Just in time product management resources
Last week I shared what you ought to know about user stories. In that post, I shared an example of stories for creating a membership site. George Dinwiddie called me out on my choice of using create, read, update, and delete stories as an example. He’s right. Ideally we want user stories to reflect what …
Stories get their name from how they should be used, not what should be written. – Jeff Patton If we get together and talk about the problem we’re solving with software, who’ll use it, and why, then together we can arrive at a solution, and build shared understanding along the way. – Kent Beck It’s …
A question that I see often is: How do you (Should you | Can you) use user stories to properly document requirements for a product? There are some people nodding in agreement “yes, I’ve often wondered that myself.” There are others who are cringing. User stories weren’t intended to be requirements. Kent Beck originally came …
A friend of mine is an agile coach for a large software product company. When she coaches teams, product owners, and managers she stresses that teams need to feel ownership for their work. She likes to teach product owners and other leaders to lead through the use of questions, and has compiled a list of …
